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Tanzania is trying to stop the sale of human skin. At an international business fair there, visitors will see a gruesome exhibit of human body parts in the government’s effort to discourage the underground trade in human skin. And nuns have discovered a trafficking network in children’s sex organs in Mozambique.

The skin and sex organs are used in shamanic ceremonies. Tanzanian forensic scientist Gloria Machube says, “People are skinned and the skin is used for their rituals. But fortunately they are caught by the police.”

In 2001, police arrested 13 members of a skin-smuggling ring and charged them with murder. The price of the human skins range from $2,400 to $9,600, depending on the age of the victim.
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Chewed, discarded bodies of dogs have been found for years in the Arizona desert. Now local sheriffs have learned these are pets that were stolen and used as “bait” in dog fights.

Maryann Mott writes in the National Geographic News about Mike Duffey, of the Pima County Sheriff’s Department, who followed the clues after he was assigned to investigate the problem full-time four years ago. He knew the dead dogs weren’t strays, because the pads of their feet and their nails were not worn down by life on the streets. He started checking the lost-and-stolen-animal reports at the humane society and says, “We found that a lot of the dogs found in these desert dumping areas were in fact, at one time, [reported] stolen. So we began looking for a connection.”
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As part of our new Communion Letters series, “Robert” writes: One of the most amazing discoveries I have had in the last few years was on the NBC broadcast of Confirmation. On that program you divulged a story involving police officers tracking not one, but three strange aircraft. If memory serves me right, it was in Warren, Ohio, about a half- hour drive from where I live. I remember being stunned about this, mainly because it had never been reported anywhere until then. Friends and family of mine have seen many strange things in our own area (Columbiana County, specifically the area around State Route 14 and its surrounding back roads).
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The Pentagon’s secret climate report warns that in next 20 years, there could be a global catastrophe costing millions of lives in wars and natural disasters. Major European cities will be sunk beneath rising seas and Britain will have a “Siberian” climate by 2020. Nuclear conflict, major droughts, famine and widespread rioting will spread across the world. This report has been kept under wraps by the U.S. military, but the contents have now been exposed by a major newspaper in the U.K.
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